Recycling and upgrading of bone meal for environmental friendly crop production and nutrition (2005-2008)

Sixth Framework programme Priority 5 – Food Quality and Safety
This project is co-funded by the European Commission within the 6^th Framework Programme of RTD.

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Team Leader: Dr. David Cohen
http://www.mop-zafon.org.il

MIGAL – Galilee technological Center is one of the branches of the Company for the Development of the Galilee (CDG). CDG is owned by 52 villages (in fact a big cooperative) and deals with many branches such as: packing houses for fruits and vegetables, petrol stations, transport firm with dozens of full trailer trucks, school buses, cold storage house and many more. All branches makes money and operate as business. MIGAL (and Northern R&D in it) operates as research institute.

The exporting company of the Galilee Development Company has offices all over Europe together with cold storage, packing houses ect. The different branches sales locally in the target country via networks, big shops, big companies like TESCO, AUCHAN or McDonalds and others. All branches in the different countries make sure to have enough orders all year long so they can ask the parent company in Israel to provide them with the required volume of products in a specific quality and specifications. Based on the information here, the company here starts signing contracts with farmers to provide the demand. Agrexco has big deals with international networks that do not want any labels on the products. They care of the volume, the quality (specifications) and price. This big networks repack the all thing in big warehouses they maintain in big airports in Europe. Since the product is fresh, the networks are very efficient in moving things from one place to the other. Sometimes a cargo is being sold while it is still on the way. The consumer in Europe wants a variety of agricultural products all year round. As long as the product of high quality (quality means not only taste, color, shape ect but also strict control over chemical residuals) and a competitive price).

MIGAL – Galilee technological Center is specialized in life, natural, agricultural and environmental research. MIGAL consists of 15 research groups operating in 3500 m² state-of-the-art laboratories and 9 experimental field stations. Migal has about 140 scientific staff including 30 senior researchers. All researchers also serve as professors and senior lecturers in the department of Biotechnology and Environmental Sciences of Tel-Hai Academic College. MIGAL is equipped with all the necessary laboratory equipment that can handle all the analyses required for successful implementation of the project. Specifically, we have extensive experience with the analyses of P in various matrices found in the environment as well as complex matrices required for fractionation, sorption and availability experiments.

During the last six years this Partner is pursuing active research on the availability, biogeochemistry and fate and transport of P in organic and inorganic soils. They research encompasses various scales from whole region through field plots, lysimeter to microcosmos experiments. They ability to work in various research scales is the most significant attribute of our team that can be utilized in other areas outside Mediterranean conditions. They field area is the Hula Valley that exhibits extensive agricultural activity as well as recent implementation of land use change from agriculture to re-wetting of a former wetland. The factors and processes that affecting the physico-chemical behaviour of P in altered wetland is the central theme of their FP-5 project called PROWATER. MIGAL has a good knowledge and long experience in the filed of project dissemination.

It is a common practice of the MIGAL to distribute new technologies and know how through "model farms", "open days" for farmers in the research stations and demonstration in the farmers's plots. The MIGAL keeps close working relations with the farmers community in the area. Farmers are also encouraged to participate in the discussions held every new year in relation with the annual work plan. The total activity is based on ten different research groups that form an annual work plan that its objectives directed towards the agricultural needs of the farmers.

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